To go to communion, this includes even today – but what gives you this opportunity? The first communion is one of the most important festivals of the Catholic faith and the first on which we consciously remember. At the ceremony of communion, baptized children experience the welcoming community with God. They are recorded in the communion with God and of the community and celebrate the Holy Eucharist for the first time. The communion is usually committed, if the children in the elementary school, while the third school year, so with seven to nine years. However, it may be shifts depending on the local strength of the vintage. Taking circumstances it may be necessary due to the falling birth rate to two or even more years of communion children together.
To make the little ones as a full-fledged member of the community, an intense and serious preparation is iterated. In the framework of the preparation for first communion, the little boy and girl deal jointly with a group leader, often even the pastor or Suitable for children with questions such as how is Vicar himself, to imagine God?”, which means faith for the people”Which means my own baptism”, meaning the work of Jesus” and how is the fair, which celebrations there. which means”the Lord’s Supper. Traditionally, the first communion on white Sunday, is celebrated Sunday after Easter. For practical reasons to all the parties to coordinate and also to celebrate the parents opportunity in restaurants, which have only limited space available, the communion celebrations over several weeks take today. For the family, the first communion is often a big celebration by parents about Godfather of close and distant relatives all are present and often for the first time for a long time to get the child to face, some connects if the whole uncle and aunts still years later rather unpleasant reminder to the circumstances of the celebration, a boring coffee & cake table. Among the pleasant sides on the other hand, that the child is richly endowed will. What is it with gifts to the communion? This is Michael Wiechert usually either to religious gifts such as a silver cross, personally engraved with names and date of communion, or a gemstone cross pendant – or to things that otherwise promote the development of the child, religious books, etc.